2012 Chigorin Memorial

The 2012 Chigorin Memorial is underway in St Petersburg, Russia. The tournament is a 9-round Swiss event taking place from 27 October - 4 November.

The contest has attracted a strong field in honour of the "Father of Russian Chess", with 26 players over 2600 Elo.

Top seeded is the Alexei Shirov (pictured), now representing his birth country of Latvia once again. Three other GMs in the 2700+ club are also competing: Alexander Areshchenko, Zoltan Almasi and Vladimir Akopian.

Rounds start at 16:00 local time (12:00 UTC) except the final round on 4 November which is at 10:00. The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves with a 30 second increment from the start.

The top 30 rated players

Name

Fed

Elo

Shirov Alexei

LAT

2718

Areshchenko Alexander

UKR

2710

Almasi Zoltan

HUN

2707

Akopian Vladimir

ARM

2703

Vitiugov Nikita

RUS

2691

Eljanov Pavel

UKR

2681

Sasikiran Krishnan

IND

2680

Zvjaginsev Vadim

RUS

2678

Grachev Boris

RUS

2672

Matlakov Maxim

RUS

2665

Negi Parimarjan

IND

2657

Khairullin Ildar

RUS

2639

Khismatullin Denis

RUS

2638

Smirin Ilia

ISR

2638

Iordachescu Viorel

MDA

2637

Bartel Mateusz

POL

2635

Timofeev Artyom

RUS

2631

Lysyj Igor

RUS

2628

Socko Bartosz

POL

2619

Lenderman Aleksandr

USA

2614

Popov Ivan

RUS

2614

Hovhannisyan Robert

ARM

2610

Demchenko Anton

RUS

2610

Swiercz Dariusz

POL

2609

Andriasian Zaven

ARM

2604

Shimanov Aleksandr

RUS

2599

Vorobiov Evgeny E.

RUS

2598

Kovalyov Anton

ARG

2593

Gabrielian Artur

RUS

2592

Ipatov Alexander

TUR

2591

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The official website (in Russian) is here. A live broadcast of the top games each round is here.